I am developing a web application for a customer, basically I need to estimate the costs of storing photos/videos on AWS for our user database.
I'd like to know the average size (or size range) of 1 minute of video for different resolutions (240p, 360p, 480p, 720p, 1080p)
I understand that there are so many video format, that an uncompressed video at 360p could be as big asthe same video in 720p compressed, but I really need an average on what you are expected to find on the internet coming from regular users.
(We may enforce video format / size restrictions depending on that)
Can you help me estimate the size of 1min of video for those different resolution formats (240p -> 1080p) assuming reasonable web quality and "usual" compression formats ? Are there maybe statistics available on the internet that can estimate typical video size ?
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The video file size depends a little on the format (the container, like .avi or .mkv) but depends a lot on the codec used for the compression and they can be very different depending on the content - usually a video showing slow moving content like a screencast takes less space than one showing fast moving content like a gameplay.
In any case I thought that I would give this a try by running a little experiment: I took a 1080p video and resized it to the other resolutions so I will give you the figures in percentage to give you a better idea. Keep in mind that a one-minute 1080p video can be typically from 5MB to 15MB ...
1080p = 100.0% 720p = 66.7% 480p = 47.1% 360p = 39.0% 240p = 31.6%
